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http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/8511191/Council-charges-children-2.50-to-use-playground.html


 

Fucking sickening, beyond the realms of decency  but sadly not totally surprising!

Charging for kids to play in a tax payer funded playground.


Those cunts won't be happy until our kids are sweeping the gold plated chimneys of their fucking mansions.

Mad much, me ?  Mad doesn't even come close to it!

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Where's Guy Fawkes when you need him....

Absolute disgrace. Won't be long before that theme spreads either. 

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Absolute disgrace. Won't be long before that theme spreads either. 

QFT

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The place doesn't sound like your run of the mill swing park though, in fact it sounds more like one of those jungle gym places but outside.   So considering that you get 2 hours at one of those places for £6 well £2.50 for all day looks like a good deal. It does say that it is supervised and hosts dance and art workshops (I am only assuming they are included in the price). We already have to pay for council ran facilities at the moment so I can see a reason for the charge if this play area is more than just a set of swings and a roundabout.

However if the council are just talking out there ass about the levels of supervision and workshops ect at the actual play area and are not just trying to cover costs of general park upkeep then they should be told where to go.

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I was along those lines of thought's myself.

Until I realised it's not an actual centre run as a paid for centre. The only reason staff are there is becasue the council demed it possibly to rough and tumble leading to possible injury. Hence they placed two members on site.  That could be easly said for any play park and I reckon they are using it to their advantage in charging for use at wekends.

The article says nought, zero, nadda about the extra activities out-with simple day usage of the play park, suddenly they include a service that would be a paid for service within the normal use of the play park in order to justify paying for it in normal use.
It cuts no mustard with me. If anything the everyday users are now subsidising those that where probably paid for services. I doubt taking your kid to a play park would normally carry an expectation of being taught dance, art etc workshops.